Personally I'd rather folks shoot high, aim for great, & if someone has special needs, they can transpile out their suboptimal version as they like. Software r

Personally I'd rather folks shoot high, aim for great, & if someone has special needs, they can transpile out their suboptimal version as they like. Software rendering at 1080p should work just fine for everyone. Even if a pi cant realtime decode a high bit rate av1, it probably can re-encode a movie overnight, maybe in a day. That is a chore, yes, but in return we get to be transfering the best quality available, we're getting much better results. I dont think there's any reason to wait. The good stuff should start getting seeded. We need media servers to help fill in the gap, do overnight non-real-time transcoding.